Second-hand Certainty Second-hand Certainty A client brought something to a conversation recently: a boardroom moment that shouldn’t have bothered her, but did. What surfaced was less about her colleague than about a change in how judgement now gets made. Listen...
The Belief That Decides First The Belief That Decides First Two leaders can face the same disruption – the same facts, the same pressure, the same weeks to work through it – and come out of it having lived through something entirely different. We tend to...
Deciding Fate Deciding Fate Most days at the top of an organisation run at a pace that feels simply necessary – the next call, the next decision, the one after that. This piece sits with what that pace decides on our behalf once it stops being something we...
I’ve Got This I’ve Got This Some of us are the ones who carry it – across every detail, holding the whole thing together so it doesn’t fall. It looks like care, and mostly it is. But there’s a cost we sometimes miss and rarely name: fill every space, and there’s...
Beautifully Stuck Beautifully Stuck Understanding yourself is comfortable. Changing ? Less so. And the distance between the two is wider than we like to admit. It’s where the most insightful of us settle – mistaking the comfort of understanding for the...
Holding Lightly Holding Lightly As we take on more complexity, something disappears – laughter, lightness, the willingness to be surprised. This piece sits with the inversion that follows: that the capacity to hold complexity does not come from compressing...
